Found in New Guinea in montane forests at elevations around 1000 meters as a large sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a very short rhizome giving rise to branched, thin, slightly compressed, rigid, leafy stems carrying erect-patent, glabrous, linear-lanceolate, subacute, oblique apically, cuneate below into the base leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal, capitate, nutant, subglobose, .8 to 1" [2 to 2.5 cm] wide, densely many flowered inflorescence.

Schlechter states the leaf sheaths are yellow and the flowers are white with a cinnabar red apex to the lip.